Simple Zope Photo Album

[mlorfeld]

"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten at rohrbach.de> wrote in message news:<slrnb1dbkp.22e2.karsten at datasink.webmonster.de>...
> mlorfeld <tutal at msn.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > image, python script, wiki).  So basically I'm looking for a Q&D
> > pytyhon/dtml/html code snippit that will dynamically create a photo
> > album.  Any suggestions?
> 
> - Install ImageMagick locally
> - Create a work directory hierarchy
>     $ mkdir work
>     $ mkdir work/img
>     $ mkdir work/thumb
> - Put all images into ./work
> - run ImageMagick over them to create jpg and thumbnails
>   (presented script is from my work dir wich contains only PNG images,
>   I publish JPEG pictures)
>     #!/bin/sh
>     for i in *.png
>     do
> 	FNAME=`echo -n ${i} | sed s/.png$//`
> 	echo ${FNAME}
> 	convert ${i} ./img/${FNAME}.jpeg
> 	convert ${i} -geometry 96x96 ./thumb/${FNAME}.jpeg
>     done
> - Now FTP to your Zope server and upload the two directories relative to
>   you gallery container object (Folder) - I use NcFTP for that
>   (recursive put)
> - on the Zope side you can install a simple DTML method which creates a 5
>   by somewhat table of thumbnails. [1]
>     <dtml-let numpics="_.len(img.objectIds(['Image']))">
>     <table class="gallery" align="center">
>     <dtml-in expr="img.objectValues(['Image'])" sort="id">
> 	<dtml-let seq=sequence-number>
> 	<dtml-if "(seq - 1) % 5 == 0">
> 	    <tr>
> 	</dtml-if>
> 	<td class="gallery"><a href="pics/<dtml-var "getId()">" 
> 	    target="_blank"><img src="thumbs/<dtml-var "getId()">" 
>             border="0" alt="[]"></a></td>
> 	<dtml-if "seq % 5 == 0">
> 	    </tr>
> 	</dtml-if>
> 	</dtml-let>
>     </dtml-in>
>     </tr>
>     </table>
>     <p align="right">
>     (<dtml-var numpics > Photos)
>     </p>
>     </dtml-let>
> 
> The beneift is, that you won't need any additional Zope products. The
> drawback is the hackish generation of URLs (which produces relative URLs
> that might lead to acqusition problems, depending on where you put the
> DTML method).
> 
> Regards,
> /k
> 
> [1] http://www.rohrbach.de/Content/Karsten/Pics


Thanks,
This is *almost* exactly what I wanted.  The only problem is that I
have no FTP access, so I will have to upload manually through the Zope
interface, but that won't be too big of a problem, just time
consuming.